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Wow just came back from premier computer & accessories market.The prices of HDD have nearly doubled.Glad i purchased 500 GB external HDD six months ago.
Wow just came back from premier computer & accessories market.The prices of HDD have nearly doubled.Glad i purchased 500 GB external HDD six months ago.
Nearly doubled?!?
A 1tb disk here in the north east of England has risen from £43 to a whopping £99. And I was about too build a server at home using two of these for a business I am starting up. Think I'll wait a while... a good while by the looks...
Thanks sm for the tip on this drive. Mine was $85 shipped, not bad at all. And the drive is fine for my purpose (WHS2011). Made in China btw.
Funny thing about the packaging--TigerDirect shipped it in a big box, but with just a little paper thrown-in it and not even wrapped around the retail package (one of those awful plastic things that can't be taken-apart without completely destroying it). But the drive is quiet and hopefully it will last.
Thanks again.
Does anyone see as production is upped in other un-effected HDD production areas and when the water damage is corrected a glut of production producing a huge fall in hard drive costs? To me this seems logical effect down the road !
That would only be possible if some production lines would run below capacity and could be turned up in a few days. If that would be true they would have already increased production some time ago. Installing new facilities would be too much of a risk (certainly in view of the higher price now obtained with existing facilities and the drop in price once the other - damaged - facilities are running again) and it would take too much time, imo. But you can only make an educated guess if you are right in the middle of it; everything else is speculation.
To me the surest sign that mechanicals will fall drastically in price at least once more if not twice more is the constant improvement in the ssd department. Both price and performance are skyrocketing.
People will likely continue to lean on mechanicals for large storage at least for the time being though.
Few months ago I bought 1 TB hdd for about $90 and I last saw on Newegg it was $209 now. Holy Crap! Glad I bought it then.
they are starting to fall somewhat. 1tb drives on ebuyer.com are below £100 now, and some around £89 mark.
Well while they have a legitimate reason for the price hike.
I think it's in their best interest to trim it down to the absolute minimum hike in order to move inventory through the holidays here.
This is the worst time of year this could have possibly happened.
I myself actually wound up upgrading to my first ssd on my new build instead of buying a large additional mechanical for storage because it was cheaper.